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Six-year-old Shooter Liked Violent Movies
This rewrite owes its source to Joseph A. D'Agostino
The habitually belligerent six-year-old boy who on February 29 shot and killed a six-year-old girl at the Theo Buell Elementary School in Mount Morris Township, Mich., liked to watch violent movies and television and "hated everybody," his incarcerated father told police.
The boy stole the murder weapon-a.32 caliber pistol that had previously been stolen by the person he stole it fromfrom the crackhouse where he lived with his 8-year-old brother and an uncle who was wanted on a criminal warrant.
Yet, on March 2, pushing for a federal law that would mandate trigger locks for all guns sold in America, President Clinton said of this first-grade murder: "That child would be alive today if that gun had had a child trugger lock on it that the other six-year-old child could not have fired."
Here is the real story as reported in a series of articles in the Detroit News:
The boy's mother, Tamarla Owens, had abandoned him at the house of an uncle, Sir Marcus Winfrey, together with his 8-year-old brother. She had just been evicted from her own broken-down home. In 1992, she had been found guilty of abusing yet another son. The uncle himself had an arrest warrant outstanding against him.
The boy's father, Dedric Darnell Owens, 28, is currently in jail with a prison record going back to 1989, when he broke into a car. In 1992, he was charged with attempted murder, but the case was dismissed. In 1995, he went to jail for burglary and cocaine possession, and then was released on parole on Dec. 21, 1999. On February 20, he was sent back to jail for violating parole.
"He was basically living in hell," Genesee County Sheriff Robert Pickell said of the boy. "His father said he was always watching violent movies. always interested in guns." The sheriff said that Owens told him that he asked the boy why he hit his classmates, and even once stabbed a girl with a pencil. "I hate them," the boy said.
Owens said publicly that his son "hated everybody. He didn't get along with anyone. He watched violent movies and TV" He admitted to taking the boy to see a Terminator movie which he later saw again on video. The boy, the father said., had been suspended from school three times before the shooting, once for the stabbing. "He looked up at me," said the imprisoned Owens. "He always wanted to go where I wanted to go."
Michigan's Family Independence Agency reported last year that Tamarla Owens was abusing an older son. And a social worker signed an affidavit the day after the shooting saying that the mother was "involved with drugs." The agency had been informed of his history of violence at school.
Six-year-old Kayla Rollands, the victim, had attracted the boy's ire by spurning his physical advances, the News reported. "He wanted to kiss her, she told him no and then she spit on him," fellow student Naomi Butler told the paper, saying she heard the story from Kayla and Kayla's sister.
The next day the boy arrived at school from the crackhouse carrying the stolen gun. The Davis Industries .32-caliber semi-automatic pistol had been stolen from the home of its legal owner in a nearby suburb, used to trade for crack, and then, just 84 days after its theft, used to kill Kayla. Police said that Owens told them that guns were exchanged for drugs at the house all the time.
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Police found another stolen gun, loaded, at the house.
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